A Polish journalist and satirist, he was born in Frantówka, Ukraine, on 1 July 1904. He spent his childhood in Kiev, from where he fled across the Green Wall to Poland at the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution. He lived in Warsaw at 66 Polna Street. He then graduated from the Kulwiecia Secondary School in Warsaw, where he received his secondary school leaving certificate in 1923. From 1924 to 1929 he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities. In 1929 he graduated from the University of Warsaw with a degree in history and defended his master's thesis "Conservatives in the Reformation Era" with a very good grade. From 1928 he worked as a journalist, publishing in Słowo in Vilnius, Prosto z Mostu and Bunt Młodych in Warsaw, Czas in Kraków, Polskie žinios in London, etc. He worked as a history teacher at a junior high school in Otwock and in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He played football in class A. He took part in swimming competitions and tennis tournaments.During the war he fought in the Polish Armed Forces in the West. He was a motorcycle courier for the Podhale Brigade and took part in the Battle of Narvik with it. He then evacuated to Great Britain, where he served as motor column commander of the 1st Polish Corps in Scotland. After the war he remained in England. Winner of the Foreign Polish Writers' Association Prize in 1958, he worked for forty years at Dziennik Polski in London, where he was editor-in-chief from 1973 to 1984. He signed a letter from Polish writers abroad expressing solidarity with the signatories of the protest against the changes to the Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland (Letter 59).He became famous for his controversial book Niemcewicz, Front and Back, which was his future PhD thesis, not accepted by the University of Warsaw (published in 1939). The book is a biography of Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, written in the form of a political and historical pamphlet, in colloquial, sometimes even vulgar language. His collection of columns, Yesterday at Randoms, was also popular and won the literary prize of the London Wiadomości (1965). 7 of his books have been published in London, including English by Day and Night, From Marszałkowska to Piccadilly, Poles in England, Kluski z Custard, Legs to Glory: The 1974 Football World Cup. In addition, the English editions of The Battle for Narvik: Impressions of the Polish Campaign in Norway and Warsaw was a Beautiful City in 1945 were published.
